1. Parenting in Academia – a career perspective
Dianne Hull and Marianne Lipa
Career Services

2. Suite 20, McNeil Building, Ground Level,
3718 Locust Walk

5. Right now resources 1-on-1
Daily walk-ins – 15-minute appointments with an advisor
Scheduled 30-minute appointments ( )
Phone
Skype
Right now resources 1-on-1

6. Family and career planning during your academic program

7. Career decision-making
Self-assessment
Explore relevant careers
Create plan and set goals
Conduct a job search
Apply and interview
Networking and
Career decision-making CS
It’s part of a process, but it’s an ongoing process – it helps you understand yourself and contribute to academic and professional choices that leads to success. To understand employability you must first understand yourself. 7

8. Career decision-making
Self-assessment
Explore relevant careers
Create plan and set goals
Conduct a job search
Apply and interview
Networking and
Career decision-making CS
It’s part of a process, but it’s an ongoing process – it helps you understand yourself and contribute to academic and professional choices that leads to success. To understand employability you must first understand yourself. 8

9. Explore relevant careers:
Based on your professional goals
Based on your strengths and skills
Based on your interests
Based on culture of industry
Based on culture of organizations
Based on likely work-life balance
Based on family-friendly policies

10. Create plan and set goals:
Which fields/organizations will you research (academic & beyond?)
Who do you know that you can talk to?
What questions will you ask?
What priority will family aspects have on your decision making?
What is negotiable, and what is not (geography?)
When, where, and with who?

11. Having the conversation

12. When should you talk about having a baby to your advisors?

13. When should you talk about having a baby to your advisors?

14. When should you talk about having a baby to your advisors?

15. When should you talk about having a baby to your advisors?

16. When should you talk about having a baby to your advisors?

17. When should you talk about having a baby to your advisors?

18. When should you talk about having a baby to your advisors?

19. Look for info on website Download faculty handbook
The basics
Look for info on website
Download faculty handbook
All policies are clearly stated
Utilize mentors and seek contacts with perspective through your networks
Advanced
Identify what’s important to you
Find people who have used similar approaches

21. Good examples: 10 days of subsidized back-up care through care.com
Caregiver identified at 7pm the night before they were needed
Can find caregiver to stay with children at conferences too
Snow Day Child Care
Snow Day Child Care provides all-day care for children of Penn faculty and staff members when the University is open but Philadelphia public schools are closed due to inclement weather. Children ages 12 weeks to 12 years are eligible for the program, whether they attend a Philadelphia district school or not.

22. Seeking information Crowdsourcing Academic Career Conference (Autumn)
Faculty Conversations (Spring)
Ask questions of the panelists during or after the programs, and get perspectives from different types of academic institutions
Alumni networks
QuakerNet
LinkedIn
Crowdsourcing

23. When to bring up baby…
…on the job search

24. Your application materialsNO

25. No inappropriate questions should be asked
Illegal v. inappropriate; Campus interview “horror story”
No need to share personal information
Visible pregnancy?

26. The interviews Your goal is to be seen as a professional in your field
Highlight future research and/or teaching contributions
Showcase what you can bring and contribute…
…not what you will need or hope to take away (e.g., a good work-life balance)
Look for evidence of family friendly policies in action
Carefully ask questions of more junior faculty as appropriate
Appropriate = previous evidence of family-friendly policies on website; pictures of kids on desk; responses to sharing of family friendly resources

27. Now and beyond – the job search
Mock interviews (incl. InterviewStream)
What should you say about you as a parent in interviews?
Meet with career advisor on offer negotiation
What should you negotiate for as a parent?

29. Upcoming Programs Preparing for your First Year as a Faculty Member
Wednesday, April 19, 4:30-6pm, Houston Hall, Ben Franklin Room 218
Learn How to Negotiate, When, and for What!
Thursday, March 23, 12-1:30pm, McNeil Room 97
*Penn doctoral students and current postdocs may purchase a copy of the Academic Job Search Handbook in Career Services for $10.

30. Once an offer is made (in writing) negotiations can begin (not in writing)
Based on info from interviews, and policies in handbooks, you can decide what negotiation strategy is appropriate
Primary negotiation goal is to make sure you have what you need to maximize your tenure success for faculty roles
Maximizing work-life balance also high up on the list (e.g., questions about paternity leave
Negotiation

31. Parent
Researcher
Teacher
Scholar
Human
Role-model
Partner
Mentor

32. Resources Inside Higher Ed Fatherhood and Academic Life
Mothers in Academia
Faculty Fathers
Changing the Conversation
They Aren’t Supposed to Ask That
Searching While Pregnant
Navigating the Job Market in the First Trimester
How to Find a Job in the First Trimester of Pregnancy

33. Resources Inside Higher Ed Chronicle of Higher Education and Vitae
Why So Few Doctoral Student Parents?
The Logistics of a Dual-Career Search

34. Resources Inside Higher Ed Chronicle of Higher Education and Vitae
The Professor Is In blog
Yes, You Can: Women in Academia
Work/Life Balance in Academia

35. Resources Inside Higher Ed Chronicle of Higher Education and Vitae
The Professor Is In blog
Penn & Beyond blog

36. Resources Inside Higher Ed Chronicle of Higher Education and Vitae
The Professor Is In blog
Penn & Beyond blog
The Academic Job Search Handbook

37. Resources Inside Higher Ed Chronicle of Higher Education and Vitae
The Professor Is In blog
Penn & Beyond blog
The Academic Job Search Handbook
The Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC)
Focus on dual career couples

38. Resources Inside Higher Ed Chronicle of Higher Education and Vitae
The Professor Is In blog
Penn & Beyond blog
The Academic Job Search Handbook
The Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC)
Other books:
Mama, PhD
Ask for it: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want
More in the Career Services reference library and beyond!

39. The Grad/Postdoc team
Career advisors working with graduate students and postdocs. Call to schedule an appointment
Dr. Joseph Barber, Senior Associate Director
Dianne Hull, Associate Director
Marianne Lipa, Career Advisor
Tara Giangrande, Administrative Assistant